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Overview

Enmu´wġi’s account, recorded at Uñi´sak at Indian Point in May 1901, concerns a married hunter who follows sledge tracks to an underground house after failing to find reindeer. Its inhabitant cooks seal meat over a lamp. She is described as having a single forehead eye, a large crooked mouth and a stout body. She announces that the visitor will be her husband, but he refuses her advances after hearing a tooth-grinding sound from her body. When she sleeps, he discovers genital teeth. The next morning he uses two stones to remove the teeth and their supporting membrane, then has intercourse with her. The narrative ends with him taking her home as a household slave. It does not report the removal of her forehead eye or a complete change into an ordinary human form. That coercive ending is part of the recorded story, not an endorsed custom or a general statement about contemporary Chukchi relationships.

Single eye in the foreheadLarge crooked mouthLives in an underground houseGenital teeth removed with stones
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Origins & earliest records

Chukchi narrative; Uñi´sak at Indian Point, May 1901

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Records & interpretation

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    Chukchee Mythology

    Waldemar Bogoras, recorder and translator; narrated by Enmu´wġi · 1910

    Jesup North Pacific Expedition, Volume VIII, Part I; Chukchee Tales II.10, (The Monster-Woman.); exact chapter locator, page number absent from this HTML section

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Primary records and illustrations

Complete English account and all attached notes read

Waldemar Bogoras, Chukchee Mythology (1910)

Chukchee Tales, II. Miscellaneous Tales. Chukchee Tales II.10, (The Monster-Woman.); exact chapter locator, page number absent from this HTML section

Cache bogoras1910-cm48.html/.txt. Narrator Enmu´wġi; Uñi´sak at Indian Point, May 1901. No native/interlinear collation. No total human transformation or happy marriage substituted for slavery ending.

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  1. Historical recorded narrative and English translationBogoras, Chukchee Tales II.10, (The Monster-Woman.); exact chapter locator, page number absent from this HTML sectionResearch access: 2026-10-05

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